People, i would realy apreciate if sombody could help me: i have no idea of php forms nor how to use it with dreamweaver 4, so i need to start from the basics, can sombody give me a hand? (any tutorial, whatever!!!)

lillonix

You can find a lot of info on this site, use our comprehensive search.

This book might be helpful to you:
www.dmxzone.com/go?3456

Good luck.

Martha Graham

Sorry Martha, but that isn't going to help much.

Dreamweaver 4 does not support PHP. For that you're going to need to upgrade to UltraDev or Dreamweaver MX.

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That is right. Didn't think about that.
You can handcode though in Dreamweaver 4. That is how I started with php

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Martha Graham

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People, i would realy apreciate if sombody could help me: i have no idea of php forms nor how to use it with dreamweaver 4, so i need to start from the basics, can sombody give me a hand? (any tutorial, whatever!!!)

lillonix
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lillonix

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lillonix
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lillonix

i got a new question for somebody: do i need to have any php editor software to start working php in dreamweaver 4?

lillonix

No,

just use dw4 in code view and hand code away, but make sure you are running a web server PWS for WIN98 or IIS NT/XP and have php installed on your machine, downloadable from www.php.net


Iain

head hurts, 'mental note to self, stop banging head !'

thats exactly where im lost: my web is in a free 5 mb unix server, and i dont know if im supossed to install some software in my computer or not, and which one. You say to install php in my machine, which one for win xp?

lillonix

OK,

For testing and building you need to have php installed in your home machine, very simple process download the windows installer from www.php.net

First your running Win XP so go to add remove programmes and add IIS its on the Win XP cd.

Then run the php installer and your machine should be ready for php sites.

You need to save the site in the folder c:\inetpub\wwwroot\SITENAME were sitename being your chosen site.

and to view in a web browser use

localhost/sitename/index.php

but all this is useless if your web host doesn't support php so you need to find that out.

Iain

head hurts, 'mental note to self, stop banging head !'

clear as water, thanks a lot i really apreciate. talk 2 u soon, ill try your recomendation.

lillonix

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hi again, now that i understood php and build a form ok, i want to know if i can build a search engine to find books in php. thanks
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lillonix

will the windows installer work on XP Pro uploading to a unix server

always on board

Yeah the windows installer is just for your machine to run php scripts, your host will have php set up to run on their server, so all you upload is your php pages, it will reaad your pages and run your scripts just the same as your own pc will.

hope this helps

Iain

head hurts, 'mental note to self, stop banging head !'